Staff Software Development Engineer - Rust, Compilers, and GPU Systems

Job Title

Staff Software Development Engineer - Rust, Compilers, and GPU Systems

Role Summary

Develop next-generation GPU systems software with Rust across compilers, runtimes, low-level GPU software, firmware, and developer tooling. The role establishes how Rust is used in performance-sensitive, high-trust parts of the GPU stack and influences both short-term implementations and long-term architecture.

This is a technical leadership position focused on correctness, safety, and hardware-software co-design across abstraction layers.

Experience Level

Senior (Staff level). No specific years-of-experience guidance stated.

Responsibilities

Deliver production-quality Rust and compiler components, define interfaces and practices, and collaborate across architecture, firmware, runtime, and validation teams.

• Lead design and implementation of Rust components for low-level, performance-sensitive GPU systems.
• Integrate Rust into toolchains, libraries, diagnostics, testing, and deployment practices.
• Design compiler pipelines involving rustc, MIR, IRs, MLIR dialects, LLVM IR, and AMDGPU code generation.
• Build analyses, transformations, legalization passes, and target-specific lowering for GPU execution models and memory spaces.
• Define typed, auditable interfaces across compiler, host runtime, device code, firmware, and hardware boundaries.
• Work on ABI definition and validation, calling conventions, linker/loader behavior, ELF and code-object metadata, and source-to-binary identity.
• Develop or improve bare-metal and no_std Rust components requiring explicit state and predictable hardware effects.
• Use testing, fuzzing, property-based testing, differential execution, executable models, and hardware validation to find semantic gaps and prevent regressions.
• Apply program analysis or formal methods where they provide meaningful assurance.
• Write design documents, lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and evaluate emerging compiler and verification technologies.

Requirements

Core skills and conditions required for success in this role. Education is summarized separately below.

• Must-have: Strong production Rust experience (ownership/borrowing, lifetimes, traits, error handling, concurrency, FFI) and designing safe abstractions over unsafe code.
• Must-have: Strong C/C++ systems programming skills and experience with mixed-language codebases.
• Must-have: Deep experience in compiler or systems engineering and ability to work across abstraction layers (source semantics, IRs, codegen, runtimes, firmware, hardware interfaces).
• Must-have: Strong judgment about correctness boundaries (memory safety, concurrency, ABI compatibility, ordering, device behavior).
• Must-have: Ability to partner across compiler, runtime, firmware, architecture, validation, security, and performance teams and to communicate technical tradeoffs.
• Must-have: Authorization to work in the United States; this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with rustc internals, MIR, custom codegen backends, procedural macros, or Rust toolchain infrastructure.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with LLVM, MLIR, GCC, designing IRs, analyses, optimization passes, and target-specific code generation.
• Nice-to-have: GPU-specific experience (AMDGPU, RDNA, CDNA, ROCm, HIP), GPU runtimes, drivers, firmware, or hardware-software co-design.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with formal methods, symbolic execution, model checking, verification tools, and advanced validation techniques (fuzzing, differential testing).
• Nice-to-have: Technical leadership experience: setting direction, mentoring, and resolving ambiguous cross-layer problems.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent industry experience. Research publications and advanced degrees are welcome but not required.

About the Company

Company: Advanced Micro Devices

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, USA

Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, is a global semiconductor company that designs and manufactures microprocessors, graphics processors, and related technologies for a variety of computing devices. Known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, AMD's mission is to deliver high-performance computing solutions for AI, data centers, gaming, and embedded applications. They foster a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on creativity and problem-solving, aiming to drive progress and excellence in technology.